US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on Nov. 18 for "Soft tissue structure determination from CT images" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,993, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Soft tissue structure determination from CT images" was invented by Jean Chaoui (Locmaria Plouzane, France), Charlotte Le Saint (Brest, France), Maximilien Mayya (Antibes, France) and Manuel Jean-Marie Urvoy (Brest, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical planning system for use in surgical procedures to repair an anatomy of interest includes a preplanning system to generate a virtual surgical plan and a mixed reality system that includes a visualization device wearable by a user to view the virtual surgical plan projected in a real environmen...